FRIDAY, AUGUST 1. 1953
PAGE ft A
HERALD AN'D NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREfiON
FRANK JENKINS Subscription Rates
Editor Entered as second class matter at the post oflice at Klamath Falls. CARRIER
BILL JENKINS Ore., on August 20. 1006, under act of Congress, March 8. 1879 t MONTH . $ 1.50
Managing Editor irPC 6 MONTHS $900
FLOYD WYNNE SERWCES: I YEAR S18.00
City Editor , ASSOCIATED TliESS UNITED PRESS mUj
MAURICE MILLER ' AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS , MONTH $ 1.50
Circulation Mgr Serving Southern Oregon And Northern Caliornia 6 MONTHS $ 8.50
Ph. TU 4-4752 I YEAR . $15.00
Too Biol
By BILL JENKINS
I suppose that a certain amount
of grousing about the weather is
always in order, but I take a sol
emn pledge right now that I will
not complain one bit about our
weather here until it reaches the
heights of horror it has in other
places recently.
Last weekend we were in Port
land on business. Drove up on
Sunday and found the thermometer
at a quivering 102 when we ar
rived in that city. Drove out into
the suburbs to visit a friend and
found it just as hot there.
Went hack to a downtown hotel
after dinner and put in about as
miserable a night as it has ever
been my misfortune to encounter.
Nothing you could do because it
didn t cool off. Unless you consid
er dropping Irom 102 to 97 cooling
off.
Not over Ihree weeks ago we
were heading north Irom a visit
to the wine country of the Napa
and Sonoma Valleys in California
when we came to 'roost for the
night at Red Bluff. Hod Bluff is a
lovely town and we have a number
of lovely friends there.
The summer climate stinks
It was 106 when we rolled in late
In the afternoon. But the night was
more bearable than the subsequent
Portland one due to an air condi
tioncr in the room which kept
things at least bearable. You could
grab a little sleep from time to
time. But not in Portland.
So, as I said before, I'll quit
grousing about our wonderful wca
thcr down here.
Funny thing about travel is that
one of the things you miss the
most when away from home is the
water. No other water tastes as
good or gets you as clean when
you shower. Much of it is no good
at all for shaving as it sticks like
melted margarine. And as far as
drinking goes one might as well
slick to soda pop. The taste is'so
different as to be almost nausea!
lug.
We may have hard water down
here but some of the stuff you
run into up north chips basins
when you run the water.
Every year the travel picture is
differenl. This year you notice
three things: More boats, more
house trailers and more carlop
packs.
Seems that people aren't getting
away from it all when they travel
anymore. They just take it with
them.
Those people up in Portland, in
cidentally, are getting a long way
ahead of us appleknockers down
hero in the Southeast. At least
ahead of those of us who don't get
a I o u n d much. While shopping
around with my host in a super
market I came across a machine
that looked like a pinball machine
but couldn't have been because the
sign said it was free. Upon closer
Inspection I found that it was a do
lt yourself tester for television
lubes.
A whole line of people wailing,
too.
Next to it was a display full of a
12-volume do-it-yourself encyclo
pedia. Looks like they do lor themselves
In the cities, loo.
virtually all gave Vergeer a com
phmentary word.
Several went so far as to ex
press concern that the city would
now "slip back."
Too ollen, however, the advent
of a city manager is taken by
residents as the arrival of a pan
acea for all the city's ills.
Vergeer will be the hired man
of the mayor and the city council
As elected officials this group
will continue to run and be respon
sible for the affairs of the city
The city manager will coordinate
the activities of all the depart
irenls. He will be in direct charge
of all departments, but will be
answerable to the mayor and council.
However, it will be October 1
before Vergeer assumes the post
It will also probably lake another
two or three months after that
before he will be in a position to
take over control of the cilys departments.
Vergeer Indicated that he had
no intentions of making any de
partmental changes, and would un
doubtedly have no changes to
make until and unless the noccs
sity to do so arises.
What then is the purpose of hir
ing Vergeer?
Well, in the first place, you
could compare it this way with
a IB million dollar corporation
which the city of Klamath Falls
is.
1 lie corporation must have a
general manager . . . that's where
the new city manager will fit
However, in a corporation, that
general manager is responsible to
t lie board of directors and the
president of the corporation. In a
comparable way, the council is the
board of directors, and the mayor
is president of the hoard.
There will be countless ways in
which a city manager can give
the people more efficient, lighter
and belter city government at
less cost.
There are many ways in which
personnel can be niore efficiently
utilized, equipment used more ex
tensively, purchases made more
cheaply . . . and other ways to
save the taxpayer money.
Now that the city manager has
been hired, and the city enters
into a new type of administration,
we can all give it a hand, by lol
ling the city manager get well
etlled into his job without any
undue publicity.
Above all, let's not expect the
impossible out of him. He'll do n
good job, and I feel will provide
a very important coordination for
our over-all city government.
From all indications, we are
fortunate to get a man of Ver-
gecr's qualifications for the $10,000
annual price tag.
city
t'ily .l.-iii.i(r
liy FLOYD L WYNNE
Klamath Falls now has
manager.
What will it mean to the resi
dents of the city?
Well, in the first place, it will
not mean that we have a man
who can solve all of our city
problems.
II does not mean thai he will
move in. run the town like a
ruling despot and install a city
government dictatorship.
In the first place, G. S. Vergeer
Sr., who will become known to
the people of the area as "Cony"
is a well qualified, thoroughly
capable city manager.
He has 1.1 years nl cily manager
backgrounding, including twice
having gone through the switch-
i it ii ran mo mayor-council to
the council-manager plan.
He has done an excellent job ol
administering the port Angeles
government. During his six lears
administration there the city com
pleted more than three million dol
lars in capital improvements, most
nl this street, sanitary and storm
sewer improvements.
He resigned Irom the Port An
geles post in early July.
' Before hiring Vergeer the coun
cil wanted to assure ilsell Hut he
was the man needed tor the post
here, and two coiinnlnien went to
Tort Angeles and spent two day
there. Coiincilmen Walter Fleet and Oli
ver Spiker report that ihcy in
terrogated private citizens, bun
nessmen, people of every walk of
life, including city officials ami
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK (API Girls, do
you know what is the worst ene
my of feminine beauty?
Here's what Constance Benncll.
one of filmdnm's all-lime glamor
dolls, has to say:
It is a resentful personality.
Any woman who habitually har
bors meanness and envv will find
n lime they will show in her (ace
and make her unattractive."
Miss Uennetl, one of the spright-
iest daughters of Die day. ran
away from school to go to Holly
wood, where she starred in 47
ilms and a number of marriages.
Mic was also perhaps the first
movie star to earn a $:i.i,ooo week-
salary and one of the first ladv
ilm producers. Following the tra
dition of her gilted father, Rich
ard Benncll, early matinee idol.
he turned later to the stage. She
also has done a lew stints as a
supper club chanteuse.
Currently she is starring on the
road in the hit comedy. "Auntie
Maine." a vivacious role that fits
her like a girdle.
Connie, who still tilts her famed
long cigarette holder at the same
rakish angle, gets an eternal kick
out of living and has some strong
opinions on why people get old.
"Youth consists merely in be
ing enthusiastic with lile in not
being bored with life," she said.
"I think people who do nothing
but think about how they look arc
bored. You can get very old wor
rying about how to stay young."
The heroine of "Common Clay"
and the famed Topper series
thinks present-day movies are
better than those of yesteryear,
hut that actresses are less glamorous.
"Films now are more realistic
and true to life," she said. "They
don't grind them out like sausage
as they used to.
"But those old tinsel lilms did
make actresses seem glamorous,
remote and unattainable.
"There aren't any Nita Naldis,
Theda Baras and Pola Negris
around any more. That style of
glamor isn't exciting anymore.
"Styles change in glamor, just
as in everything else.
"What is glamorous today? I
think it is a combination of fresh
natural beauty and sophistication
rather than the exotic. Ingrid
Bergman and Grace Kelly come
first to mi.nd.
"But anything really obvious
isn't glamorous and lhat in
cludes, in my opinion, actresses
who look so sexy they seem to be
bursting."
Thousands of times women have
asked her for beauty secrets, but
she said the only one she knew
that makes real sense is this:
Be beautifully natural and
naturally beautiful."
I'rofifs Down
By SAM DAWSON
AP Business News Analyst
NEW YORK (API-Profits of
nearly four out of five corpora
tions look it on the chin in the
first half of Hie vfear for a knock
down of 32 per cent.
The U. S. Treasury will suffer
a tax loss of roughly similar per
centage in collecting from corpo
rate incomes-
Bill business entered the second
half of the year on the upbeat.
Hopes are high that earnings will
rise now and erase part of li)58's
decline.
The Treasury shares this hope.
lis new estimates of total collec
tions show it expects its share of
gross corporate earnings to top
the first six months.
So far 576 corporations have re
ported six-month earnings. Of
these 417 show declines from the
first half of 1057, some sharp ones.
And 39 of them operated at a
net loss, compared with 16 in that
fix a year ago. The Treasury not
only will lose on collections from
Ihe 39, but these companies will
havo lax losses to offset future
earnings when making up income
returns.
But a sizable number of the 576
show that profits turned upward
significantly in the April-May-.lune
quarter. Many others feel
lhat Ihe low point has been
reached. In the January-February
March quarter earnings of 5R0
corporations were off 33 per cent
from the previous year.
The first-half decline of 32.1 per
cent this year compares with a
4.5 per cent gain of Ihe 1957 first
half over Pl.ili, a 5.5 per cent rise
of the 1956 first half over 1955, and
1955 s jump of 34.7 per cent over
1954.
Most of the companies report
ing declines in profits this year
also show drops in production and
sales as the recession trimmed
demand for their products. But
some show sales gains and profit
llllMMVMIMMllS
Klamath Falls (To the Editor)
-There has been a very noticeable
change in the appearance of our
treets and alleys during recent
years and I am s'lire we should
all commend all of those persons
who have given freely of their
time and efforts, through the lit
tcrbug and other campaigns, to ob
tain the cooperation of the gener
al public in helping to make Klam
ath Falls a cleaner, more beautiful
city, than ever before.
The extra work of our cily ad
ministrators and street depart
ment are also highly commend
able and with the cooperation of
all of us, there is no reason why
tourists and other visitors who
come here will not tell others that
Klamath Falls is a good place to
stop.
Harold A. Thompson
1120 pine Street
Pogo
so.' ocao vvevr
1-2 CU-VWS l-S'S ASA VCT MV
i- HOW PCsS t-S scw w-ATS ,
Si scvc in sqye pp--',
:tCCu3 Bg ANYTHING
THING.'
6-1
!. w-0 V.OUIO oiO'SC
StVP SLEEPIM' l AW
ywff doesnt waut
HIS 0VH (jCOUNTRY
AWAKE.
iy Ts,a.3vvi ii
ifl fOiO C--O S3.
1 V in P8SC eug. J
losses. Almost all the companies
complain of rising operating costs
squeezing their profit margins.
A handful of industries have
higher profits this year than last.
Tobaccos, drugs, foods, airlines
and utilities are in this lucky
class.
Hardest hit in the profit slide
are the railroads. Only one of the
38 lo report so far shows a gain
and 10 of them are using red ink.
For the group as a whole the de
cline is 71 per cent.
The auio industry and its sup
liers suffer the second greatest
drop, off 57 per cent as a group,
with six reporting net losses. But
this industry pins its hopes on Ihe
forthcoming new models which it
thinks will help it regain much of
the lost ground.
Almost tied with the car mak
ers are the companies in the en
tertainment field. Makers of rail
equipment are fourth with a group
decline of 54 per cent.
The steel and iron industry,
which dropped off 58 per cent in
the first quarter, recovered some
ground in the second. The decline
(or the first half is 52 per cent.
Its second-half results will be col
ored both by the wage scale boost
July 1 and the price rise now un
der way.
Mining and mclalvvorking also
have firming prices and in some
cases rising labor costs on tljeir
second-half horoscope. In the first
half their 44 per cent drop was
Ihe sixth largest.
The 576 corporations as a whole
reported 1958 earnings as $3,751,-
701.000. compared with $5,529,359,
lino for the same companies in the
first half of 1957 when many of
them were setting records.
llOl.S
By United Press International
LONDON Prime Minister
Macmillan, proposing in a note to
Soviet Premier Khrushchev a spe
cial U.N. Security Council meet
ing to be attended by the heads
of government in New York:
"If this meeting is agreed, 1
shall be there on Aug. 12; 1 hope
you will be there, too."
LONDON - Abdul Monem Rifai,
Jordan ambassador lo Britain, on
the consequences of any prema
ture withdrawal of American
troops from Lebanon:
When the second round in this
Middle East struggle comes, there
will not be any Arab countries left
for the West to land troops in to
resist aggression. II will be the
other side that gets Ihe troops
there first."
MOSCOW - Adlai Stevenson,
commenting thai his Soviet tour
uncovered a "depressing lack ol
knowledge" about and a keen
sense of competition with the
United States:
. . .1 wonder if it is understood
lhat the basis for peacelul exist
ence is mutual trust."
GUATEMALA CITY - Milton
Eisenhower, on the results of his
1-day lour of Central America:
"I am now bellrr acquainted
with Ihe problems aitecling the 12
million people living in this impor
tant pan oi tnc hemisphere."
SAN FRANCISCO Tram...
president James Holla, advising
Ul.-UO president Genrco Mnnnv
lo consider "his own past associ
ations and his own nasi inm"
before making charges ajainst
Holla:
"I think George will nnitmi mil
what 1 mean."
WASHINGTON Rm-rr nkh
Washington counsel for Rntinn
textile tycoon Bernard Goldlinc,
on whether he also represented
Goldline's friend. Presidential
Aide Sherman Adams:
"Absolutely not: I never met
Mr. Adams but once and lhat w.n
before this stalled. The White
House is not calling the shots. No
body calls Ihe shots for me."
They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo
WELUEVERVBOCVS Xf NO-NO.' NUT , vy --rrT 3
iTY HERE NOV, LENZO--WHV Y( NOW BOOK WHYIZZTTr
VWi. A OOMT VOU TAKE A NICE H S-SYS NEVER JAKE I : NOBODy EVER
J kMk PICTURE OF THE l A PICTURE IN J1 T4KES A PIC
Y&b t'uLyi Utt M?, rrs y everybody
;,n,- r'MTrtimiW- 'M In itgTri , M'iIIII'iiM MOLD IT.'
EVERYBODY V ''i l0SMUl!gX
Looks A mess- Ofw. aimn
THEN THE SM4PS
GOP Gathering In Capital
For Weekend Convention
land too, may be a candidate if
and it's a big if he defeats
front - running Democratic Attv.
Gen. Edmund G. Brown for
lovernor in November.
SACRAMENTO (API Republi
cans begin gathering here today
for a weekend stale convention
which will provide a critical lest
of attempts to establish a har
mony front among followers of
California's GOP big 3.
Outward sijjns support the opti
miststhose who think the party
can get by without a serious open
clash.
The entire buildup for the two
day meeting has been generously
adorned with olive branches con
tributed, in one form or another,
by members partial to Gov.
Knight, Sen. William F. Know
land or Vice President Nixon.
All three segments appear to
favor George W. Milias, Jr. of
Gilroy as state chairman and V.
John Krehbiel of Los Angeles as
vice chairman.
And there is a strong move
ment to avoid a bitter fight over
the open shop issue with an
agreement to take no position on
Ihe so-called "righl-to-work" in
itiative in the GOP slate plat
form. That belief was bolstered Thurs
day when Assemblyman Harold
K. Levering of Los Angeles, plat
form committee chairman, said
flie would introduce a resolution
calling for convention neutrality
on the controversial labor meas
ure.
Knowland is flying in to attend
the meeting, and plans to present
his view's lo the platform com
mittee. He alone of the major
Republican candidates has en
dorsed the initiative to outlaw the
union shop.
The backstage efforts to quar
antine "right-to-work" fit in with
attempts to bring at least a
semblance of peace to the torn
party.
ACTRESS TO MARRY
NEW YORK (UPI) Actress
Kim Stanley, 33, will he married
Wednesday to actor Alfred Ryder.
It will be Miss Stanley's third
marriage and Ryder's first.
lllllj.
Dexall
GLAZING COMPOUND
Use Dexall Glazing Com
pound for setting window
glass in wood or metal sash.
Superior to putty. It stays
elastic, will not crack or dry.
Assures a perfect weather
tight bond. Paint over it in
24 hours.
$1.20
4 lb. can
A & B PAINT
STORE
1229 E. Main Ph. 4-3324
The Republicans will be meet
ing as the underdogs for the first
lime in many years. The primary
election results clearly raised a
Democratic challenge to the tra-'
ditional Republican control of the
state government.
Four years ago, Knowland and
Knight became political buddies
to help turn away a pro-Nixon
move to take over the parly
leadership. Now they are es
tranged by Knnwland's candidacy
for Knight's job a decision that
prompted the outgoing governor
to run for the Senate instead with
Nixon's hearty support. '
In the background is the quiet
battle for control of the -California
delegation to the 19K0 Repub
lican national convention. Every
one considers Nixon to be a cer
tain presidential contender. Know-
RACING!
Klamath Speedway
Saturday - Aug. 2
Saturday
Night
Red Barn
Dorrii, California
Special Guests!
Sally Wells and
k Bob Abney
Sinqinq and Playing for
your entertainment! Stars
of Radio, Television and
Western Bands.
Music By
PEE WEE
STIDHAM
and the
Butte Valley Ranger
No incrtaw In
admiiilon prices
Dancing 9 till 1
90c Person
Finest Major O'V-QCVa-' Use Any Major
Gasoline -o rlZr' Oil Credit Card
3
Across From "Lees" South 6th & E. Moin
CHECK TICK ETS
rtrsnnnniTo-ti "sxtnTtrrsxim-isf
LESSONS S
$ 1 25 Organ, Piano
I Guitar, Accordion "
FOR BEGINNERS o
ARMSTRONG .MCSH STORE o,
2'Mlt S. flth TU 2-.T.-2i e,
-Q 0 0 0 10 ) OOOOQQOOOIiOllO?
MOW 5
FOR FREE BOAT
Next Free Ford Aug. 27
FUTURESQ SERIES IN
Q-mstrong vinyl corlon
the
JLJLVVJLI I tomorrow:
i oi tomorrow
Previewed in the House of Future
in California and featured
in Celestial Room, National Home
Furnishings Show in New York.
The Futuresq series in Armstrong
Corlon is a plastic floor lhat is
extravagantly different! Combines
metallics with the beauty of
clear vinyl. Truly, a floor that's
absolutely breathtaking In beauty.
No wonder it has been hailed In
Ihe previews as the floor of
tomorrow!
ifmiiiii. ii it. . .'' w-Ar niSiitf v, t, i ;JTi a wi-l if ,i ,iV
here
Sec it now m our display room.
Its real beauty cannot be
illustrated in an advertKctneoL
You have to see the materia
to see ibe beaoty.
tow
357 E. Moin
DrUr boun: 8 A M' - '-30 P.M.
Ewtuap K ipprantmfl(
neat: TU 4-8471